You know you're in a bad neighborhood when...

...the parrot at the local pet store mimics the sound of car alarms.

Gimme more...more, I say

Besides the French Word of the Day, I'm toying with adding a Fiction Snip of the Day...a piece of on-the-spot clever writing done by yours truly. I got the idea from Scott Bateman's Damn Sketchbook. If you haven't checked out Scott, he's a clever comic artist. Go read him, and maybe you'll be amused.